Society & Culture Terrible baby names

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Cruyff14 said:
Alexander is mine too.

Oliver is an awesome name.
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MEB_ said:
They're lovely names. Not 'unique', not trendy, just classic names.
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Yeah, individually they're really solid names. But together? Jack Alexander Oliver [last name].

I think it's the two middle names that make it sound a little pretentious.
 
My middle name is my mum's dad's middle name, which is the name he was known by. He passed away when my mum was a child. I share it with my uncle, my cousin, and my cousin's son.

My dad's mum's side all had the same middle name, male and female. It was almost like another surname. No idea why.
 
Croweater said:
My parents did an extremely w*nky thing and gave me two middle names.

When they called out my full name at uni graduation, I realised just how pompous it sounds. My middle names are both strong names like my first name, but put together? Jesus. A few of my friends have two middle names too. Talk about a w*nker brigade. :$
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My children both have THREE. :eek: We also don't call either of them by their full first name. (TBL?)

My wife is the last of her family line, there being no males her surname will not carry on, so the children have taken it as a middle name.

Both took "family" names - Peter carrying through generations of my Family, and Mary/Maree through my wife's.

We had 'name pairs' (first/middle) for both children when they were born, and both basically named themselves, as they didn't "look" like the alternative names.
 

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NotAMagpieBogan said:
At the work the other day a family came in and one of the daughter had a grade 6 year level jumper, one of those that lists the kids in the year and all that.
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Work at a couple of primary schools -

One of the names on the Year 6 jumper I saw..... Coco Bacon

I think Coco is a rather average name to begin with, but probably not worthy of a spot in this thread on its on...

But combined with that surname.....
 
Simon_Nesbit said:
My children both have THREE. :eek: We also don't call either of them by their full first name. (TBL?)

My wife is the last of her family line, there being no males her surname will not carry on, so the children have taken it as a middle name.

Both took "family" names - Peter carrying through generations of my Family, and Mary/Maree through my wife's.

We had 'name pairs' (first/middle) for both children when they were born, and both basically named themselves, as they didn't "look" like the alternative names.
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Cruyff14 any thoughts as to how I can get myself out of this sticky situation?

Prevalence of foot in mouth disease is prevalent. :eek:
 
Simon_Nesbit said:
My children both have THREE. :eek: We also don't call either of them by their full first name. (TBL?)

My wife is the last of her family line, there being no males her surname will not carry on, so the children have taken it as a middle name.

Both took "family" names - Peter carrying through generations of my Family, and Mary/Maree through my wife's.

We had 'name pairs' (first/middle) for both children when they were born, and both basically named themselves, as they didn't "look" like the alternative names.
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Oops. Hahaha.

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I went to primary school with a kid who was so-and-so 'The Third'. One problem though, he had speech impediment that cause him to be unable to make 'th' sounds. So when he had to say his own name, he was so-and-so the tur--, yeah it's not hard to make out the rest of it. Poor kid.
 
My middle name is James which is apparently one of the most popular middle names for boys.

Not sure I'd want it as a first name though as it sounds a bit pompous.

Gough said:
Clive James was born Vivian James, and when given the chance later to choose his own name picked Clive out of a Tyrone Power film.
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So you've read Unreliable Memoirs too? He mentions changing his name in that, one of the funniest books I've ever read.
 
Plugger35 said:
So you've read Unreliable Memoirs too? He mentions changing his name in that, one of the funniest books I've ever read.
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That, and Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan are the two books I can't read in public lest I giggle too much.
 
radiojake said:
Work at a couple of primary schools -

One of the names on the Year 6 jumper I saw..... Coco Bacon

I think Coco is a rather average name to begin with, but probably not worthy of a spot in this thread on its on...

But combined with that surname.....
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I originally read that as Coco Baron.
 

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